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THE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE THIRTY YEARS

Don't trust anyone over 30--at least, that's what the counterculture used to say, right around the time when W first hit the nation's newsstands in 1972. In those early days, W was just an inky broadsheet, the feisty kid sister to a hard-nosed fashion newspaper called Women's Wear Daily. But those first Ws asked the kinds of questions that today's magazine--big and glossy and more fashion bible than fashion flipbook--still asks: What's Ali MacGraw eating? Which 26 men have won the biggest boardroom battles and charmed the most women in the process? And by the Way, how's Gloria Guinness doing? The editors held forth with plenty ...

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